The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to pass a fiercely contested law to restore degraded natural ecosystems, salvaging the environmental…
EESC takes steps to empower youth in EU decision-making
The EESC (European Economic and Social Committee) has moved towards prioritising youth involvement in its decision-making processes by announcing the…
NATO allies offer security assurances for Ukraine on path to membership
The United States, Britain and global allies prepared to unveil new security assurances for Ukraine at a NATO summit on…
A wasted opportunity? Italy’s EU funds bonanza hits the rocks
Italy’s hopes of transforming its economy with billions of euros of European Union pandemic recovery funds are unravelling fast, businesses…
Trans advocates in Russia brace for proposed gender surgery ban
Elle Solomina is 36, but she says her life truly began in 2021, when she changed her gender to female…
No lifeguard at Aphrodite’s rock ‘because it is a national monument’
A lifeguard cannot be stationed at Aphrodite’s rock because it is a national monument, according to Paphos’s district officer Mary…
For Putin, war is his political technology, taken Russia back to the Brezhnev era
Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the…
Two footballers banned for life for match fixing
Two footballers were banned for life from stadiums and fined €32,000 for match fixing, the judge of the athletic court…
Bank of England says UK economy coping with higher rates
Britain’s economy is so far proving resilient to the jump in interest rates but it will take time for the full impact…
Milan Kundera, author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dies aged 94
Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” has died, the Czech library housing his…